by Brian Kennedy | Dec 11, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Ottawa Senators
No particular plan. That’s what Guy Boucher said Saturday that he had going for Sunday with his team having lost to LA and heading down I-5 to Anaheim for Sunday. No plan? They’d had two full days off after winning against San Jose midweek. Now, maybe playing the...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 25, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks, Homepage, NHL
A week ago it was, “We need to find our identity.” Earlier this week, “Focus on the process.” Friday after losing an afternoon contest in which they went down 3-0 and clawed back to 3-2 before a failed final flurry that had Corey Crawford declaring that the Ducks are...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 21, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
The Ducks should have been the rested, and thus faster, team Sunday night with LA in town. Empirically, they’re the faster team anyway, but man, they didn’t look it aginst the Kings. The LA team, by the way, had played just 28 hours earlier, with New Jersey in for an...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 7, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Archived Features, Calgary Flames, Homepage, Leagues, NHL
With Calgary in town Sunday evening, the Ducks had two injured players back, two-thirds of their first line: Nick Ritchie and Ryan Getzlaf. They started the game with Corey Perry as their right-winger, and things were going well. The team got its first goal when the...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 5, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, Homepage, NHL
That crunching sound you hear is the sound of Duck bills smacking their way through the Arizona Coyotes’ lunch. 21-4 was the shot total in period one of the Ducks-Dogs game Friday night. And this without the Anaheim squad featuring its captain. That’s right—Getzlaf...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 29, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Homepage, NHL
The refrain was the same from the defenseman to the captain to the coach of the Ducks Friday night: We got off to a good start. We had a bad five minutes (actually four), and we never got it back on track. They ended up losing 4-0 to the Columbus Blue Jackets, who got...
